News from Manor Lettings
4 January 2011: Landlords say rents to rise in 2011
This is on the back of strong levels of tenant demand, research from The Paragon Group has revealed. The buy-to-let mortgage specialist's data showed 55 per cent of landlords plan to keep rents at 2010 levels and.more...
8 November 2010: Landlords set to cash in as demand soars
The rental market is expanding as demand increases but a shortage of homes is pushing rents to record highs.more...
3 October 2010: Paragon re-enters buy-to-let market
Paragon Mortgages has returned to new lending by launching a range of buy-to-let mortgage products targeted at professional landlord investors.more...
2 October 2010: Landlords missing out by rejecting LHA tenants
Many landlords are missing out on a significant percentage of the rental market by refusing to accept tenants who are in receipt of housing benefit, says Landlord Assist.more...
1 October 2010: RLA: New Tenancy Legislation Puts Landlords At Risk
Landlords in England could be caught out by new tenancy legislation that became law today. The change raises the annual rent threshold for common 'assured shorthold tenancies' from £25,000 to £100,000. But the move is backdated to include…more...
30 September 2010: Oxford landlords defy home licence plan
A group of landlords and letting agents are taking Oxford City Council to court over its plan to force multiple occupancy houses to have licences.more...
22 June 2010: Budget announcement and the changes to LHA.
Further to the 22 June budget the immediate concern for many landlords will be the new limits placed on LHA (local housing allowance) and its effect on rental prices.more...
10 June 2010: Government scraps new regulation on Landlords.
The Housing Minister Grant Shapps has just announced that the Government will not be proceeding with a Landlords Register or the regulation of Letting and Management agents.more...
20 May 2010: HIPS suspended with view to being abolished. EPC's to remain.
Today the Government announced that HIPS have been suspended with immediate effect with view to being abolished.more...
8 May 2010: Councils rate HMO landlords on secret database.
It has come to our attention that local councils may be sharing information on the rating of HMO landlords. According to studenthousing.co.uk local councils are rating HMO landlords and sharing the information on a secret database.more...
14 April 2010: Residential landlords expect interest rates to rise by early 2011
Nearly all residential landlords in Britain expect interest rates to rise by the beginning of 2011, despite the fact that the Bank of England recently decided to keep its historically low base rate at 0.5%. more...
7 April 2010: Mandatory landlord licensing now in force.
It‘s now official. The whole of the UK has now adopted mandatory licensing of landlords. Scotland already had mandatory licensing in place, England & Wales adopted the scheme on 3 Feb and Northern Ireland just recently implemented theirs on 24 March. more...
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